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three seconds ahead of Ocon.
Nasr’s two points immedi-
ately elevated Sauber to 10th
at Manor’s expense and for
the second time in five sea-
sons, a wet race in Brazil ap-
parently put paid to Manor’s
survival...
Team owner Fitzpatrick made
a rare media appearance
at the season-ending Abu
Dhabi Grand Prix confirming
that a deal had been agreed
with new investors although
conceding to Motorsport
Monday that the situation
“had been complicated”
by losing 10th place in the
standings at Interlagos.
No further announcements
were made by the team de-
spite widespread speculation
as to who the investors were.
Then out of the blue stories
started to circulate that the
deal had fallen through and
these rumours were suddenly
confirmed in a team state-
ment issued on January 6th
that the administrators had
been called in. Fitzpatrick then
confirmed terms had been
indeed been agreed with an
Asian investment consortium
in December but that time
ran out before a deal could
be completed. He added that
the result in Brazil “brought
into doubt the team’s abil-
ity to race in 2017” after la-
belling a 10th place finish as
“imperative”.
Despite Manor’s strides in
2016, they have ultimately not
been enough and they clearly
raised doubts over the future
of the team. Minnows on to-
day’s Formula 1 grid simply
cannot exist on limited fund-
ing and the benevolence and/
or ambition of its investors
forever. Despite this, it is far
too simplistic to merely pin
the demise on just a couple of
factors. The trajectory of any
entity is multi-layered, with
hundreds of cogs, be it money,
management, drivers, circum-
Pascal Wehrlein’s tenth place in Austria this year looked set to give the
team a third consective tenth place finish in the constructors’ championship
After Booth and Lowdon departed, team owner Stephen Fitzpatrick
(l) installed ex McLaren man Dave Ryan (r) as the new team boss